As I wrote, artificial intelligence is now on everybody’s mind, right?

How is Taiwan doing in terms of research and application of artificial intelligence. Of course, US, China, everybody thinks about those countries.

Then a long time, nothing. Then Japan, Korea. Taiwan is on nobody’s monitor.

I know there’s some things going on, but what’s the vision on Taiwan? Where do you see Taiwan right now in the whole setup in the world, and what’s the vision for the next 5 or 10 years?

At what stage will you put it into real use?

What about data protection? You were just talking about this student film thing?

You have to have access to all this data.

The fintech AI, so it’s already used?

What would you say is Taiwan’s unique contribution? If you compare it with US or China?It’s all data driven. Taiwan is small islands and not so many data available.

That’s why there’s a lot of start up initiatives in Taiwan going on.

Tell me about talent. That’s probably now the main headache of all companies or countries that they don’t have enough talent. This AI fever is pretty huge. I know in Taiwan there’s a lot of very clever people and very mathematical and natural science oriented.

What about German companies?

What’s the catch?

Would you say that now those AI entrepreneurs or digital people, they go more to Taiwan because it’s notexpensive to live?

You already put this in the constitution that broadband’s a human right?

This is even without 5G.

When is your target of 5G being available?

Technically.

Do you think with 5G there will be a huge step up to have even more difference?

A huge amount of money is put into start ups. In TSIthey told me this is very well financed.

Which is a very good thing because this is a development everywhere.

If you put 100 in, how much would come out?

You talked about the sandbox example. Taiwan, as well as Japan, are not very much known for being un bureaucratic.

I saw that in theopen data index, Taiwan is on top.

It´s on governments but it’s not comparable on enterprise side, right? Open data?

You want to share information. How far do private companies like the big ones, TSMC, Foxconn, cooperate with you, are willing to share their information?

Every country has always the fear that too much information isiphoned off by somebody else.

You talk about all the social benefits.

You need to have money to solve problems. If AI is too open, what’s the income base of the companies who pay their employees or the income base of the country to pay for all the social benefits?

What do you think about the idea that some kind of setup like a AI related technologies be taxedinstead of people? The more robots you have in a company, the more tax the company should pay.

Again, can we talk about the question I started with? Where do you see Taiwan in 5 to 10 years as better off than right now, or is the competition getting too strong from other countries that Taiwan needs to fear...

Awesome.

Japan right now has a very new program for small children for learning AI related knowledge. Does Taiwan have similar program?

Mainly you talk about all the strong points of Taiwan. What would you say is the weak point of Taiwan on AI?

Nobody’s perfect.

What are the best areas for German and Taiwan to cooperate in AI?

Right. Thank you very much.

I hope it didn’t take too much of your time.